How to be a Career Chameleon

July 7, 2008
Business Services recruitment, strategy

As anyone working in the pharma industry knows, the industry is transforming, and fast. Four key changes are having an …

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July 7, 2008
Sales and Marketing

Pharmaceutical companies must adapt to changing market dynamics in 2008Pharma companies face growing competition from generics, increasingly tough pricing and …

Almirall expands its horizons

July 3, 2008
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Almirall, COPD, Spain

Almirall has been Spain's number one pharmaceutical company for some years, but is still little known outside its home market. …

Shire to buy up German biotech

July 3, 2008
Sales and Marketing MA, biotech

Shire is set to acquire German biotech firm Jerini, in a bid to expand its portfolio of treatments for rare …

Geoff Hurst lends support to prostate cancer campaign

July 3, 2008
Medical Communications patients

A new campaign highlighting the inequality of treatment in men with prostate cancer has been launched with the help of …

AstraZeneca wins vital Seroquel battle

July 3, 2008
Sales and Marketing AZ, generics, psych

Anglo-Swedish pharma company AstraZeneca has scored a vital victory in defending the patent on its blockbuster drug Seroquel. A US …

Pfizer declares revolution in US medical education funding

July 3, 2008
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing CME, US, ethics

A revolution in the funding of continuing medical education is on the cards after Pfizer declared it would no longer …

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The NHS: Sixty years of conflict and compromise

July 2, 2008
Sales and Marketing Aneurin Bevan, NHS

The headline of the Evening Standard reads: “The Doctors say No! 89% against present plan”. Is this the reaction to …

Let’s build on 60 years of the NHS and pharma working together

July 2, 2008
ABPI, NHS, Richard Barker, nhs 60 years

Ever since Aneurin Bevan launched Britain’s fledgling health service in 1948, the UK-based pharmaceutical industry and the NHS have stood …

A faster NICE and a ‘right’ to drug access in NHS Constitution

July 1, 2008
Sales and Marketing NICE

The problem of access to new cancer treatments and other medicines is to be addressed as part of the newly …

Latest news from Datamonitor

June 30, 2008
Sales and Marketing

Can technology diminish reliance on heart transplants?Growing risk factors in an ageing population have driven the rising prevalence of heart …

Darzi review must present a ‘clear vision’ of reform

June 27, 2008
hc

Ministers must clearly explain what NHS reforms are meant to achieve if they want them to succeed, according to an …

Lilly launches television campaign for ED awareness

June 27, 2008
Medical Communications

Lilly is to launch a groundbreaking erectile dysfunction awareness campaign, specifically targeting younger men who tend to neglect the problem. …

NICE budget to be ‘significantly increased’

June 27, 2008
Sales and Marketing

The government is to significantly increase NICE's budget to allow it to take on more work, according to the watchdog's …

Incentives lacking for NHS changes

June 26, 2008

The King's Fund has warned that there remain significant barriers to shifting the balance of healthcare to local settings. Despite …

NHS urged to tackle health inequalities

June 24, 2008

The government has published a set of detailed health profiles highlighting local health 'hotspots' in a bid to address the …

Global marketing and the shifting balance of power

June 23, 2008
Sales and Marketing US, global, marketing

As a marketer in the international pharmaceutical world, it is very likely that the brand we are responsible for has …

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